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. >>> officials begin to amass a full accounting of what was lost during hurricane sandy. another high powered a mission from washington. mi >> reporter: fema estimates nearly $3 billion in aid has already been approved and sent into the pockets of storm victims whose homes were destroyed or damaged like many of those here in breezy point, a massive need for assistance in sandy's wake that is still unfolding. a first look for vice president joe biden today touring sandy ravaged seaside heights in new jersey, a visit hitting close to home. >> as a kid, i spent all my time at the jersey shore. >> reporter: the vice president assured the region, this just isn't a local responsibility but a national one. he greeted local first responders. the vice president flew over the beach side communities hit by the force of sandy's surge and wind. preliminary findings from fema now underscore the massive loss homeowners have suffered. in new jersey alone, fema estimates more than 73,000 homes and businesses sustained damage and the number is expected to rise. >> in region we' about to wa
. >>> officials begin to amass a full accounting of what was lost during hurricane sandy. another high powered a mission from washington. mi >> reporter: fema estimates nearly $3 billion in aid has already been approved and sent into the pockets of storm victims whose homes were destroyed or damaged like many of those here in breezy point, a massive need for assistance in sandy's wake that is still unfolding. a first look for vice president joe biden today touring sandy ravaged...
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. >> chris, i live in brooklyn and bringing you two updates for the sandy recovery on the effort back home. chris: good for you. >> good news and bad news. good news, the motorized wheelchairs are beginning to work again and old people's wheelchairs are powered by electricity and when the power goes out they literally can't move around. the power is beginning to come on in some of the high-rise buildings so people are able to recharge their wheelchair for really the first time in weeks and able to move around more easily again. that's the good news. the bad news is that things are still really tough. my synagogue was preparing lunch meals for kids at schools this week, and they found out that they not only had to do lunch, they had to do dinners for the kids to take home as well because there's no food at home. chris: "the new york times" is doing a good job with that. >> thank you. chris: a lot of pages focused on what's going on in the burroughs. you usually don't focus on them but a lot of us are. >> i would follow up on the mccain-graham business, you saw what the president said a
. >> chris, i live in brooklyn and bringing you two updates for the sandy recovery on the effort back home. chris: good for you. >> good news and bad news. good news, the motorized wheelchairs are beginning to work again and old people's wheelchairs are powered by electricity and when the power goes out they literally can't move around. the power is beginning to come on in some of the high-rise buildings so people are able to recharge their wheelchair for really the first time in...
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it will probably have to ask congress for a bailout for its flood insurance program after hurricane sandy. the national flood insurance program has been broken since inception because it fails to require home owners in low lying areas premiums adequate to cover the cost and as a result encourages more home building in areas like this. federal taxpayers everywhere else have to foot the bill and they're 18 billion in the hole and 12 million thanks to health care sandy and this is one of those other disasters everyone saw coming and congress has nonetheless failed to credibly address. >> matt. >> a hit to the french this week, for recognizing that syrian opposition, fighting a long, drawnout war against president assad has been joined by the turks and the gulf states as well which may open up a way to try and arm them and give more support and hopefully the u.s. will soon follow. >> paul: steve? >> the people in miami are hopping mad this week. we just spent 500 million dollars on a new baseball stadium for the miami marlins. they feel double crossed. this week the owner of the team sold off
it will probably have to ask congress for a bailout for its flood insurance program after hurricane sandy. the national flood insurance program has been broken since inception because it fails to require home owners in low lying areas premiums adequate to cover the cost and as a result encourages more home building in areas like this. federal taxpayers everywhere else have to foot the bill and they're 18 billion in the hole and 12 million thanks to health care sandy and this is one of those...
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they arrived before superstorm sandy hit, ready to do whatever was needed. and they are needed. anna i could man is live from -- new york this is therapy for the veterans as well? >> reporter: it is they are headed to a debriefing now to share some of their stories. many of these veterans are reporting not experiencing symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and not having to take normal medications, many veterans from the wars in iraq andafter 5 are giving their fist -- and afghanistan are giving their support to the victims of sandy. >> they have this idea the sense of service that drew them to the military in the first place. when they see disaster strike their backyard it is important for them and they find it important to rise up and meet that challenge. >> reporter: they are focusing in the rockaway section of queens today, giving blood, sweat and tears, removing debris, muck, sand and mold from flooded homes residents are calling them a godsend. >> they give by serving the country and then they come to give to me individually, they keep me safe. now they are trying to
they arrived before superstorm sandy hit, ready to do whatever was needed. and they are needed. anna i could man is live from -- new york this is therapy for the veterans as well? >> reporter: it is they are headed to a debriefing now to share some of their stories. many of these veterans are reporting not experiencing symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and not having to take normal medications, many veterans from the wars in iraq andafter 5 are giving their fist -- and...
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. >> jamie: it has been weeks after super storm sandy and parts of lower manhattan remain a mess, many people unable to return home. numerous businesses struggling to cope with the effects of the storm and so much more. we go live to lower manhattan. how bad is it today? >> reporter: well, most of the focus following super storm sandy has been in the hard-hit coastal communities, but portions of the island of manhattan are reeling. crews are still pumping out, trying to get the water turned back on, the power, the heat, the electrical systems reworked. this is a historical area, many buildings built in the 1700s and 1800s. you can notice the plywood and there is restricted use signs on the winds on. residents in battery park city, some are allowed to break their leases and the landlords are offering rebates, but that's a case-by-case business. as for businesses, 35% of them only have business interruption insurance. here's what a community leader has to say. >> obviously, it's been very difficult, after sandy because here in lower manhattan, we have faced this kind of devastation befor
. >> jamie: it has been weeks after super storm sandy and parts of lower manhattan remain a mess, many people unable to return home. numerous businesses struggling to cope with the effects of the storm and so much more. we go live to lower manhattan. how bad is it today? >> reporter: well, most of the focus following super storm sandy has been in the hard-hit coastal communities, but portions of the island of manhattan are reeling. crews are still pumping out, trying to get the...
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to talk about price gouging and gas prices and things you have on your mind in the wake of hurricane sandy. i would be remiss if i didn't and you about the scandal being called benghazi gate by many, do you think first of all that there really is it a scandal there or do you think that this will sort itself out? >> well, it may sort itself out. but the real scandal is how we get ourselves involved in messes like this and get our people in danger spots. here we first help people who didn't like their dictator and we get permission from others to bomb their country and put them in charge and they may have turned against our people and killed our ambassador, and i think that we get ourselves in thyself messes that we shouldn't. >> are you disappointed in general petraeus. ni am more disappointed in our policies that allow us to get in these predictaments and people die over it that bothers me the most. president obama visiting new york and touring the damage from hurricane sandy and one of the things elected officials were keen on is the exploitation of the victims by their businesses and hus
to talk about price gouging and gas prices and things you have on your mind in the wake of hurricane sandy. i would be remiss if i didn't and you about the scandal being called benghazi gate by many, do you think first of all that there really is it a scandal there or do you think that this will sort itself out? >> well, it may sort itself out. but the real scandal is how we get ourselves involved in messes like this and get our people in danger spots. here we first help people who didn't...
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might be the blankets that have you seen used over sandy. you could give that in honor of someone on your shopping list. it really makes people feel good. i just encourage people to sign up to volunteer with the red cross. we are a volunteer agency. 90% of the people that you see at sandy are volunteers. if you get trained during the year, god forbid, when disaster strikes, you can be on the seen scene, helping others. >> shannon: we all have something to give, whether it's time, blood, money, or car, there are ways for all of us to get involved. we thank you. we know that it never lets up. we would encourage folks to check your web site and check out i. redcross.org. and thamps to fox viewers, that is allowing us to turn compassion into action and get the relief there. >> shannon: thank you for coming in. and thank you to our viewers. we give you credit for helping. the red cross is one of many groups will we will showcase. what are your favorite charities and why. how are they helping folks? send us a quick tweet. we'll read those later in
might be the blankets that have you seen used over sandy. you could give that in honor of someone on your shopping list. it really makes people feel good. i just encourage people to sign up to volunteer with the red cross. we are a volunteer agency. 90% of the people that you see at sandy are volunteers. if you get trained during the year, god forbid, when disaster strikes, you can be on the seen scene, helping others. >> shannon: we all have something to give, whether it's time, blood,...
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. >> heather: as thousands of people still struggling in the aftermath of hurricane sandy we'll separate the truth from the myths about fema's response. >> gregg: to be news alert on the explosive situation playing out in the middle east right now. a fifth straight day of very heavy fighting. israel making new operations to stop a relentless barrage of rockets. israel is fully prepared to, quote, expand its offense. that may mean a ground invasion of the gaza strip. david lee miller is live on the israel-gaza border. has diplomacy made a difference at all? >> we're about a mile from the border. a few moments we saw more rockets fired by militants into israel. as we gazed overhead. we saw the iron dome system doing its job. three of those rockets shot down just a few moments ago. in total today, at least 75 rockets were fired into israel. three of them targeting the city of tel aviv all 6 those intercepted. it's worth noting the shrapnel from one intercepted rocks fell to the ground and hit a car. there were no serious injuries. seven israelis were injured and dozens more had to be treate
. >> heather: as thousands of people still struggling in the aftermath of hurricane sandy we'll separate the truth from the myths about fema's response. >> gregg: to be news alert on the explosive situation playing out in the middle east right now. a fifth straight day of very heavy fighting. israel making new operations to stop a relentless barrage of rockets. israel is fully prepared to, quote, expand its offense. that may mean a ground invasion of the gaza strip. david lee miller...
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to talk about price gouging and gas prices and you have onw that your mind in the wake of hurricane sandy. before i do, i would be remiss if i didn't ask you about the scandal being called benghazi gate by many. do you think, first of all, that there really is a scandal there or do you think this will sort itselfl out? >> well, it may sort itself out, but i think the real scandal is how we get ourselves involved in messes like this, and we get our people in danger spots. here we first help some people who didn't like their dictator, and we get pe permission from no to go in there and bomb their country and put somebody in charge. it looks like they may well have turned against our people and killed our ambassador, and i think we get ourselves into these messes that we shouldn't. >> are you disappointed in general petraeus? >> i'm more disappointed in identifier policies that allow us to get into these predicaments and people die over it. that's what bothers me the most. >> president obama visiting new york friday, touring the damage from hurricane sandy. one of the things all the elected
to talk about price gouging and gas prices and you have onw that your mind in the wake of hurricane sandy. before i do, i would be remiss if i didn't ask you about the scandal being called benghazi gate by many. do you think, first of all, that there really is a scandal there or do you think this will sort itselfl out? >> well, it may sort itself out, but i think the real scandal is how we get ourselves involved in messes like this, and we get our people in danger spots. here we first...
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lauren, how did your family get through sandy? >> oh god, the supermarkets were a war zone. i couldn't find my greek yogurt anywhere. i had to get off my low glycemic diet. it was awful. that was my mom. i live in california. >> but your family is okay? >> everybody is safe. a lot of people having hard times. >> i want put it past her to do that song and dance. >> that was dit rally what she said. she lost power, but that was her main concern. >> the greek yogurt. >> very important. >> i can see that. >> when you are on a low glycemic diet. >> greg, do you have a book coming out? >> i bet you didn't know. november 29th in orlando at barnes and nobel. and at "books a million." and i will be at the villages on november 29th. november 30th i will be in gainesville and barnes and nobel and
lauren, how did your family get through sandy? >> oh god, the supermarkets were a war zone. i couldn't find my greek yogurt anywhere. i had to get off my low glycemic diet. it was awful. that was my mom. i live in california. >> but your family is okay? >> everybody is safe. a lot of people having hard times. >> i want put it past her to do that song and dance. >> that was dit rally what she said. she lost power, but that was her main concern. >> the greek...
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advance of sandy coming. our rick reichmuth our meteorologist here, it was well down past of florida and cuba and saying it's heading for us, you're seeing the super charged areas around the world and you were able though to monitor it, using incredible technology and think back in history what we had with the galveston hurricane that devastated the port of galveston in early 1900 and relying on telegrams from cuba and dispatches. that's all we had to work with. >> yeah, you know, and he saw that storm coming as well and saw what was happening in the atmosphere as it was approaching galveston and one of the things that i remember back with andrew connelling into florida and we just had the doppler radar system put in place, and i could remember that morning seeing the winds on that radar going, oh, no, homestead is going to be devastated because of wind were just so incredible and that was really the first time we saw it using the doppler radar system. >> clayton: when you saw it was headed for new jersey, wh
advance of sandy coming. our rick reichmuth our meteorologist here, it was well down past of florida and cuba and saying it's heading for us, you're seeing the super charged areas around the world and you were able though to monitor it, using incredible technology and think back in history what we had with the galveston hurricane that devastated the port of galveston in early 1900 and relying on telegrams from cuba and dispatches. that's all we had to work with. >> yeah, you know, and he...
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how about sandy happens and we're not doing anything about climate change? there's a scandal. >> or about going -- having access to people's e-mails and wiretapping and all that, that's probably a bigger scandal than this and something that warrants discussion. andrew, i did have to say, i was on an airplane when this news broke [ snchland the people i was sitting next to, we were all like, really? this guy's going to resign over an affair? did he give away military codes or secrets? nobody could understand why this was such a big deal. i don't get it. >> yeah, i think i had the same reaction. but one thing that makes this fundamentally different than a lot of the washington sex scandals that we've seen is that david petraeus still gets about $12,000 a month in military pension. under federal law as a retired officer receiving a pension, he's still subject to the uniform code of military justice. and adultery is a crime under the ucmj. that might be really unbelievable for a lot of civilians, but it's a crime. people do time in the brig for it. i think based
how about sandy happens and we're not doing anything about climate change? there's a scandal. >> or about going -- having access to people's e-mails and wiretapping and all that, that's probably a bigger scandal than this and something that warrants discussion. andrew, i did have to say, i was on an airplane when this news broke [ snchland the people i was sitting next to, we were all like, really? this guy's going to resign over an affair? did he give away military codes or secrets?...
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and economic news, hurricane sandy took a toll on industrial production. it fell fortunes of a percent. economists expecting a two tenths of a percent increase. thyield on a ten year treasury note moving down. crude-oil prices down selling at $86.67 per barrel. and in corporate news, though losing more than 7% in its share price after reporting late yesterday, quarterly earnings fell by nearly 50%. good news for facebook. that stock up more than 6%. the social network share is holdg up despite the expiration of some like the agreement this week. two oil workers are missing after an oil platform exploded off the coast of louisiana today eleven other crew members were flown to hospitals, four of them listed in critical condition. coast guard ships and helicopters are continuing their search tonight for the two people who are missing. no crew of is leaking from the platform owned by black elk energy, which is about 25 miles southeast of grnd isle, louisiana. turning back to politics, and joining us now, the "a-team" tonight demopolis a prize-winning columnist
and economic news, hurricane sandy took a toll on industrial production. it fell fortunes of a percent. economists expecting a two tenths of a percent increase. thyield on a ten year treasury note moving down. crude-oil prices down selling at $86.67 per barrel. and in corporate news, though losing more than 7% in its share price after reporting late yesterday, quarterly earnings fell by nearly 50%. good news for facebook. that stock up more than 6%. the social network share is holdg up despite...
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the same blue fleece he's been wearing every day since hurricane sandy. >> i also give a special thanks to my lovely wife who is here tonight who put up with a husband who has smelled like a wet fleece for the past three weeks. >> you have been wearing that fleece a lot. >> it's used to my skin at this point. >> i have seen you wearing suits. >> i wear them over the fleece. i'm going to die in this fleece. >> a couple things here. the fleece is no longer on the governor. thank you, said the fleece. as you might expect, fleece has its the own twitter handle. 23 followers, 46,900 less than lester has. still growing oh, so strong. >> but who is counting? he has great comedic followers. >> i think we can get the numbers up to 27 with the four of us. >> a little bakeoff. >> i think another couple and he should be good to go. we're almost there. >> jenna, thanks. >> dylan dreyer with a check of the weather. >> the weather in the eastern half of the country still looking okay, but we do have a lot of storms hitting the west coast. storm after storm. and they're only going to get stronger as we
the same blue fleece he's been wearing every day since hurricane sandy. >> i also give a special thanks to my lovely wife who is here tonight who put up with a husband who has smelled like a wet fleece for the past three weeks. >> you have been wearing that fleece a lot. >> it's used to my skin at this point. >> i have seen you wearing suits. >> i wear them over the fleece. i'm going to die in this fleece. >> a couple things here. the fleece is no longer on...
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how about sandy happens and we're not doing anything about climate change? there's a scandal. >> or about going -- having access to people's e-mails and wiretapping and all that, that's probably a bigger scandal than this and something that warrants discussion. andrew, i did have to say, i was on an airplane when this news broke and the people i was sitting next to, we were all like, really? this guy's going to resign over an affair? did he give away military codes or secrets? nobody could understand why this was such a big deal. i don't get it. >> yeah, i think i had the same reaction. but one thing that makes this fundamentally different than a lot of the washington sex scandals that we've seen is that david petraeus still gets about $12,000 a month in military pension. under federal law as a retired officer receiving a pension, he's still subject to the uniform code of military justice. and adultery is a crime under the ucmj. that might be really unbelievable for a lot of civilians, but it's a crime. people do time in the brig for it. i think based on som
how about sandy happens and we're not doing anything about climate change? there's a scandal. >> or about going -- having access to people's e-mails and wiretapping and all that, that's probably a bigger scandal than this and something that warrants discussion. andrew, i did have to say, i was on an airplane when this news broke and the people i was sitting next to, we were all like, really? this guy's going to resign over an affair? did he give away military codes or secrets? nobody...
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. >>> parts of the northeast still need help after superstorm sandy that destroyed their homes, shattered their lives. it happened three weeks ago. vice president joe biden is in new jersey this morning to tour the recovery efforts and thank first responders many some of the hardest hit areas of sea side heights. >>> back to the middle east where violence is ramping up. israel's prime minister says he is prepared to escalate attacks on gaza, and france is sending their foreign minister to help broker a cease-fire deal egypt is standing up for gauze wra. joining me on the phone from houston, texas, is a former u.s. ambassador to israel and syria. ambassador, britainan's former prime minister, or the prime minister currently secretary former -- let's try that dpen. the former secretary and israeli ground invasion of gaza would cost israel a lot of international support. do you agree with that? >> yes, i do, because in 2008-2009 israel conducted a ground invasion of gaza. there were many, many casualties. over 1,400 on the palestinian side. i believe 300 on the israeli side. it was a major m
. >>> parts of the northeast still need help after superstorm sandy that destroyed their homes, shattered their lives. it happened three weeks ago. vice president joe biden is in new jersey this morning to tour the recovery efforts and thank first responders many some of the hardest hit areas of sea side heights. >>> back to the middle east where violence is ramping up. israel's prime minister says he is prepared to escalate attacks on gaza, and france is sending their foreign...